ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,128, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Universal sloped roof solar panel mounting system" was invented by Christopher John Bamat (Denver) and Devin Glen MacRostie (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal mounting system for supporting a plurality of photovoltaic modules on a sloped support surface, such as a sloped roof, is disclosed herein. The universal mounting system may include one or more support surface attachment devices, each support surface attachment device configured to attach one or more photovoltaic modules to a support surface; and one or more module coupling devices...